Zoran Divac

A man can do whatever he can in his life and he doesn't have to do what he doesn't have to.

[🎼🌺Music Love♥️ @ThoNg676733]

Those were the days. never fade. of the era 80's.90's 😊Two incredible voices, one amazing song – you rarely see or hear musicians like these.

[Zoran Divac @3divac]

@NugsGetBuckets The only thing for sure is that Wilt would be very surprised if he faced a player like Jokic.😎

[Zoran Divac @3divac]

Donte was their 6th player in points scored this season, but he is the best 3-point shooter on that team. However, Jokic's 3-point shooting drops to around 20% already in April, and this continues in the playoffs for some unknown reason, because for almost the entire season he shot 3-pointers around 40%?🤔
So, of course, this is Jokic's worst playoff performance of his career and he is mostly responsible for the Nuggets being eliminated in the first round.
However, even such a bad Jokic has averaged almost 3 points, 3 rebounds and 7 assists more than Victor Wenbanyama in these playoffs. In the three lost games of this playoffs, Wemby grabbed only 4 (four) rebounds, which would never happen to Jokic even if he played with one arm tied behind his back.
But Jokic was eliminated in the first round, while Wemby is going to the NBA Finals. And everyone's cheering for Wemby now, rightly so, because that's how it should be.🤷‍♂️

[Zoran Divac @3divac]

Not exactly. Anthony Edwards played in the first game the Nuggets won and the second game the Wolves won by 4 points. He also played G3 until injury in the second half and about 17 minutes in G4.
Aaron Gordon, who entered the series not fully recovered, did not play in the last 2 games. But in G5, Spencer Jones replaces Gordon in the starting lineup, shoots 4-5 from 3-point range and scores a career-high 20 points. How big this surprise was, it is enough to see that Spencer's season average was 5.5 points. And the Nuggets won this game 125-113.
However, basketball is an interesting sport precisely because every game is special and full of surprises. Just as Spencer Jones surprised the Timberwolves in Game 5, Ayo Dosumnu surprised the Nuggets in the series and was his team's second-leading scorer behind Julius Randle. In G4 against the Nuggets, Ayo scored 43 points, and in the next series against the SAS, he scored a total of 47 points. So, it's always possible for a bench player to play a game like he's the GOAT, and the series is lost sometimes not in one game but in just one quarter.

[Zoran Divac @3divac]

Hahaha, stick to your baseball, man, basketball is not your strong suit.😁
Nikola Jokić could stop playing basketball tomorrow and everyone will be talking about him for as long as basketball exists. The man has already become a basketball legend: the most skilled big man who has ever played, one of 9 players to have won 3 or more MVPs, a champion, starting next season the record holder for the most triple-doubles in history, the only player ever to have led the league in rebounds and assists in the same season, all NBA veterans claim "we've never played against a player like Jokić",... etc.
I could go on and on about why Nikola Jokić is exceptional, but there's no point: You're either a big hater or you don't know basketball at all.
Choose what suits you better!😎

[Zoran Divac @3divac]

G6 you are right - my typo.
So, the fact is that two teams were not fully healthy in the playoffs, and they were not playing at full strength. The Nuggets have been injured all season like never before, and that's pretty much how they entered these playoffs.
They are bitter rivals on the court, but when the game is over, Jokic has the most respect from the Minnesota players, especially Anthony Edwards and Rudy Gobert. It's a shame that you Minnesota fans don't behave similarly, but from what you wrote it seems like you don't even respect some of your team's players.

[Zoran Divac @3divac]

The Wolves played without Ant and Donte DiVicenzo, while the Nuggets played without Gordon and Peyton Watson. Third starter Christian Braun played G7 with an injured ankle, which we only learned after the series ended.
However, if you know anything about basketball, you would know that role players are often more important to the outcome of a game than the main players.

[Zoran Divac @3divac]

@Patrick92778648 @NugsGetBuckets Wemby is still incapable of defending Jokic.
And Jokic did shoot poorly from behind the 3-point line against Minnesota, which is a big mystery. From 40% on the season, he dropped to 19% 3-point shooting against Minnesota, no one knows why?!🤔

[Zoran Divac @3divac]

@bennyspeak @Uz0Jay @NugsGetBuckets It depends on how you look at it. Most of the games in the series were decided by role players from both teams, so injuries didn't seem to be a deciding factor.

[Zoran Divac @3divac]

@Patrick92778648 @Uz0Jay @NugsGetBuckets You're right, the Nuggets had 3 starters injured, and the Wolves only had 2. So the Nuggets were more injured than the Wolves in this series.

[Zoran Divac @3divac]

@PurpGoldLakers 😂

[Zoran Divac @3divac]

@Uz0Jay @NugsGetBuckets Didn't the Nuggets also play injured?

[Zoran Divac @3divac]

@kawhianderson @HarrisonWind @ChampionsLeague Yes, and Budapest is about a 3-hour drive from Jokic's Sombor, so he and his brother Nemanja didn't have to travel far to attend the Champions League final.

[Zoran Divac @3divac]

You can never blame just one player for a team's loss.
The Spurs won the season series against OKC 4-1, and now they have won the WCF against them 4-3. So the WCF was more of a cliffhanger than it should have been because the Spurs are clearly the better team.
All the Spurs starters scored in double figures in G7, while OKC's 3 starters scored 7, 4 and 3 pts, and Alex Caruso as one of the key players of their team scored only 3 FG, shooting 1-6 behind the 3-point line.
Marc Davis, a veteran referee who rarely calls fouls, officiated this game as well as G3, but the SAS adjusted and won OKC with their tactics from G3: less dribbling and more quick passing, guarding opponents 1-on-1 on defense.

[Zoran Divac @3divac]

@martinmbauer With an important note: it is not related to the name John Tra-volta, except in humorous physical animations.

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[Zoran Divac @3divac]

The pilot wave approach, like most other interpretations of QM, is a rather simplified approach to the phenomenon of quantum indeterminism, where the whole problem boils down to explaining the indeterministic wave-like kinematics of particles.
I think this is a much broader and deeper problem concerning the relationship between two fundamental concepts of modern physics, namely particles and fields.
Even classical, non-quantum physics took the phenomenon of particles and their fields quite lightly and self-explanatory, but when you think about it, things are not quite that simple. In classical physics, we learn about fields based on the forces that act on particles, while the particles themselves cannot be observed directly, but only through their field. This in itself is a kind of unsolvable duality or "dilemma" that was probably transferred to the dilemma of wave-particle duality when we began to study the quantum world where particles are truly particles and not bodies composed of countless smaller particles.
Then, at the beginning of the 20th century, Planck divided even EM radiation into quanta or packets of energy, while Einstein, with his explanation of the photoelectric effect, gave Planck's quanta the properties of real particles.
It is worth noting here that one of the two postulates of Einstein's SR, which states "the speed of light is independent of the speed of the emitting body", also in a certain way breaks the connection between particles and their radiation, i.e. the connection of particles with their field.
And finally, by combining the postulates of SR and QM, we arrived at QFT, which states that the field is the source of particles (discrete excitations of the field), instead of particles being the source of the field as classical physics claimed.

[Zoran Divac @3divac]

@modularform Some things are so persistent that they refuse to disappear even when we pretend they don't exist.
Wave-particle duality is one of those things: you can wait another 21 centuries, but wave-particle duality will not disappear.😎

[Zoran Divac @3divac]

@JoeRoganRecaps The situation becomes very tense when Joe asks, "But what are we measuring?!"
But at the same time, you can hear Michelle pouring water or some juice into a glass and all the tension disappears.😂

[Zoran Divac @3divac]

@fredyfredo123 @martinmbauer You seem to have taken my post too literally.😎